romance

From LSJ

Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1280-4

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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substantive

story: P. and V. λόγος, ὁ, μῦθος, ὁ; see story.

love: P. and V. ἔρως, ὁ.

mere fiction (as opposed to truth): P. and V. μῦθος, ὁ.

verb intransitive

P. μυθολογεῖν.

invent stories: P. λογοποιεῖν.